Figured as I don’t do much in the way of repairs anymore I would post about any PAL news I may have.
I’ve done too much over the last couple of years to really capture here but all of the PLD files we have have now been moved to the wiki at https://www.pldarchive.co.uk so get yourself over there if you haven’t already and check it out. It covers PLD files of any sort and for any application so if you have any you are willing to share them please get in touch.

So todays news is I have successfully recreated and tested the final two missing PAL16R8 devices from Crude Buster. These were the final two that we didn’t already have so that’s a full set available now.

CRUDE BUSTER ENTRY HERE

After my repair of Battletoads I have tested (after converted them from binary to fuse map) all the PAL dumps from MAME set and I can confirm they are good.All .JED must be burned onto GAL20V8 or PALCE20V8.

‘coolmod’ sent in 256KB binary dump from a Hotdog Storm, I reversed it into GAL16V8 and he successfully tested it on PCB.Thanks to him.

Muddymusic sent me a Chopper I PCB to look at.
There were 5 PAL’s on this board and all were soldered in so I had to desolder them to dump.
All the PAL’s were unlocked so these are native dumps in their native format.
They will need converted to GAL format to use in a GAL chip.